September 10: The Sweetest Fruits by Monique Truong

September 10th, Friday12pm New York | 5pm London | 6pm Athens  Friendly guided discussion about The Sweetest Fruits, organized in collaboration with Singapore Unbound. Author Monique Truong will join for the final half hour to chat with us. Publisher: Gaudy Boy Press and Penguin Click here to get a copy of your book! Discussion hosted by Bhakti Shringarpure About the bookA Greek woman tells of how she willed herself out of her father’s cloistered house, married an Irish officer in the British Army, and came to Ireland with her two-year-old son in 1852, only to be forced to leave without him soon after. An African American woman, born into slavery on a Kentucky plantation, makes her way to Cincinnati after the Civil War to work as a boarding house cook, where in 1872 she meets and marries an up-and-coming newspaper reporter. In Matsue, Japan, in 1891, a former samurai’s daughter is introduced to a newly arrived English teacher, and becomes the mother of his four children an